Naturally, I’ve always been mad about clothes. You don’t get born in Paris to forget about clothes for a minute.

You can see and feel everything in clothes.

All my life I've pursued the perfect red.

When I arrived in America, I had these very dark red nails which some people objected to, but then some people object to absolutely everything.

Power has got to be the most intoxicating thing in the world—and of all forms of power the most intoxicating is fame.

I think part of my success as an editor came from never worrying about a fact, a cause, an atmosphere. It was me—projecting to the public. That was my job. I think I always had a perfectly clear view of what was possible for the public. Give ‘em what they never knew they wanted.

I adore artifice. I always have.